(n.) Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.

阿維斯整理

• The attack was made and many shots fell within the fort, creating some consternation, as we now know. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• I needed no second permission; though I was by this time in such a state of consternation and agitation, that my legs shook under me. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• Emma turned round to look at her in consternation, and hastily said, Have you any idea of Mr. Knightley's returning your affection? 簡·奧斯汀. 愛瑪.
• Consternation reigned there. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• Struck with consternation, the old gentleman exclaimed, What do you tell me! 查爾斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
• The wonder and consternation with which Joe stopped on the threshold of his bite and stared at me, were too evident to escape my sister's observation. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
• If I had presented a pistol at his head, this abandoned wretch could hardly have exhibited greater consternation. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• As I gained my feet the therns lowered their wicked rifles, their faces distorted in mingled chagrin, consternation, and alarm. 埃德加·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
• I was almost in consternation, so little had I expected any guest from the blocked-up vale that night. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
• There was a growing consternation outside. 戴維·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• There had been great consternation in Petersburg, as we were well aware, about a rumored mine that we were going to explode. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• There was a general consternation. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• When St. Clare breathed his last, terror and consternation took hold of all his household. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
• Finally, however, on the 12th of March, he did push down through the north-western end of South Carolina, creating some consternation. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• And all was consternation in the _beau ch?teau de Hampton! 哈里特·威爾遜. 哈里特·威爾遜回憶錄.

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